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Dear B.C. Liberals: Your budget priorities need fixing.
By
Lizanne Foster
| February 12, 2017

Dear B.C Minister of Finance Michael De Jong,

Thank you for your voicemail message expressing your regret that I was not home to share with you my priorities for a balanced budget. Perhaps it was a good thing that I was not available for your call because I have a feeling you don’t really want to hear what I have to say about your government’s fiscal management record.

Firstly, I don't think we could even agree about the topic of our conversation since I see a balanced budget as an oxymoron, like fresh-frozen or pretty-ugly. A budget is a forecast, not a fixed entity. It's a projection that is at best an estimation of what spending will be.

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Thousands pledge to fight Kinder Morgan in the streets

December 12, 2016
| Following Justin Trudeau's approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, thousands of people have pledged to do whatever it takes to stop the project.
Length: 12:40 minutes (11.6 MB)
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After stunning NDP loss in B.C., it's time for a new kind of politics

NDP rally, May 12, 2013. (Photo: brent_granby / flickr)

The NDP's stunning loss in B.C. is being deconstructed, dissected, analyzed and mourned over not only here but across the country.

Every pundit and political junky, including me, thought the NDP would win, even after their lead suddenly dropped. But unfortunately, most of the analysis won't be very helpful for those individuals and organizations hoping and fighting for a better country.

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B.C. Election: The Tyee's legislative bureau chief, Andrew MacLeod on today's election

May 14, 2013
| David Ball and Irwin Oostindie speak with The Tyee's legislative bureau chief about today's election and the recent Health Ministry's firings.
Length: 11:36 minutes (10.63 MB)
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B.C. Election: Journalist Bob Mackin on holding the government accountable

May 14, 2013
| David Ball and Irwin Oostindie on the B.C. election, government transparency and access to information.
Length: 15:45 minutes (14.43 MB)
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2013 B.C. election: The missing news

May 14, 2013
| A panel discussion presented as part of the CounterCulture Speaker Series and run by the Media Democracy Project, looks at what's missing in the coverage of the B.C. election.
Length: 1:33:34 minutes (85.67 MB)
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B.C. Election: NDP's Mable Elmore urges action on affordability, education

May 13, 2013
| Jane Bouey and Mayaan Kreitzman speak with NDP MLA Mable Elmore about the upcoming B.C. election.
Length: 09:53 minutes (9.06 MB)
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B.C. Election: Spencer Chandra Herbert (MLA, Vancouver-West End)

May 10, 2013
| Derrick O'Keefe interviews Spencer Chandra Herbert, NDP MLA for Vancouver-West End on Media Mornings.
Length: 13:32 minutes (12.4 MB)
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Green Party receives C- best grade of bad overall grades in Report Card on British Columbia Parties’ Democratic Good Government
By
Democracy Watch
| May 10, 2013

Green Party receives C- best grade of bad overall grades in Report Card on British Columbia Parties’ Democratic Good Government Platforms — Conservatives receive a D-, NDP a D- and Liberals an F

Despite high voter concern about democracy and trust, all parties fail to promise many needed changes to have effective democracy, government ethics and accountability in British Columbia

Friday, May 10, 2013

OTTAWA – Today, Democracy Watch released its Report Card on the 2013 Democratic Good Government Election Platforms of the five main British Columbia political parties, the only election report card on these issues.

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B.C.'s political climate is shifting: Why talk of 'jobs vs. environment' no longer holds water

Something subtle but important has shifted in the climate of B.C politics.

Early in the April 29 televised leaders' debate, B.C. NDP leader Adrian Dix addressed climate change, not as an environmental issue for the consideration of future generations, but as a present-day economic and social issue.

Dix talked about how people in interior communities are already losing jobs because of trees killed by the pine beetle, which is directly linked to rising temperatures. The fact that the fossil fuel industry is already devastating the interior forestry sector is starting to sink in.

 In Vancouver, where I live, it is possible to think of rising carbon levels in the atmosphere as a future environmental issue, but in rural B.C., it is a different story.

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